Change the region wired at the factory in NETGEAR routers

When buying a NETGEAR router abroad, many are faced with the fact that it does not support many of the standards of Russian Internet providers, such as the L2TP protocols and various variations of the functions necessary for the operation of IPTV.
It was discussed at various forums that in order to change the region to Russia, it is necessary to rewrite the Bootloader, but in practice, in most cases this is not required. To change the region, on most models it is enough to drive the appropriate commands via Telnet. How to get access to the router via Telnet - you can read here .

And so, here are the commands:

For models on Broadcom chips, such as WNR3500L, WNR3500Lv2, WNDR4500, R6300

burnsku 0x0002 

The answer should be

 burnsku OK 

This command transfers the router to the WW region, it is with this code that these models are delivered to Europe. For the Russian functionality to work, you need to select the Russian language in the WEB interface.
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For models on Atheros chips with OpenWRT based firmware, such as WNR2200, WNDR3800, WNDRMAC, WNDR4300

 artmtd -w regionset RU 

The answer should be

 argv[3] = RU write region number: 0x0005 Unlocking /dev/mtd1 ... Writing from /tmp/temp.img to /dev/mtd1 ... [ ][e][w][w][w][w][w][w][w][w][e][w][w][w][w][w][w][w][w] The region number is: 0x0005 REGION: RU 

Good luck.